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Event Recap: The State of the Black Ecoystem Summit 2024

Event Recap: The State of the Black Ecoystem Summit 2024

De La Soul’s 1989 hit Me Myself and I remains an anthem for self-acceptance and individuality. In 2024, Atlanta-based nonprofit Goodie Nation and its ATL(BLK)TCH program is borrowing De La Soul’s message as inspiration to create a better, more inclusive, and more authentic tech

Get To Know The CEO: Joey Womack Reflects On A Decade Of Social Entrepreneurship

Get To Know The CEO: Joey Womack Reflects On A Decade Of Social Entrepreneurship

Diving into startups wasn’t Joey Womack’s initial career plan. He intended to follow in his father’s footsteps and become an accountant, and he was eyeing one of the Big Four firms after graduating from Florida A&M. But he caught the ‘startup bug’ while thinking about

Google For Startups Launches 2nd $5 Million Black Founders Fund

Google For Startups Launches 2nd $5 Million Black Founders Fund

Google for Startups Black Founders Fund is back for 2021. The $5 million fund, announced today, will give $100,000 in non-dilutive funds to 50 Black startup founders across the country. But Atlanta’s influence is all over this national program. Google for Startups US, headed by Jewel Burks

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Startup Atlanta Adds Five New Board Members

Startup Atlanta, the city’s non-profit focused on bolstering local entrepreneurship, has announced five new members will join their board. The five members represent VCs, B2B startups and local organizations from across Atlanta’s tech ecosystem. New members include Joey Womack from WeWork Labs and Goodie Nation, Venture Atlanta

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AtlBlackTech to host virtual panel on the State of Atlanta's Black Tech Ecosystem

2020 has refocused national attention on police abuse of power, racism and issues of economic inequality in profound ways. Building off the momentum from their 2019 event, AtlBlackTech is back with its State of the Atlanta Black Tech Ecosystem series, to discuss how these national conversations are impacting the local

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#NewNormal: What Is The Post-Pandemic Future of Coworking Spaces and Membership Communities?

For everyone whose job has been so far spared by the coronavirus’ effect on the U.S. economy, working from home went from a nice perk of employment to the new reality of doing business. But what about those workers who have been renting virtual offices of their own in

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WeWork Labs Unveils First Atlanta Location With Launch Week Event

After successful rollouts in Miami and Durham, North Carolina, WeWork Labs has launched its first Atlanta location downtown today at 101 Marietta Street. Serial entrepreneur and Goodie Nation founder Joey Womack will manage programming for the space. Since its launch in 2018, WeWork Labs has functioned as WeWork’s global